| 100% | PEERGYNT | 8 | Titular Ibsen character who runs away with, then abandons, Solveig |
| 37% | DISH | 4 | One who ran away with the spoon, in a nursery rhyme |
| 32% | SHREK | 5 | Film title character who says "This is the part where you run away" |
| 30% | ELOPE | 5 | Run away with a lover |
| 30% | ELOPE | 5 | Run away with a romantic partner |
| 30% | DESERTER | 8 | Soldier who runs away |
| 30% | DESERTERS | 9 | Those who run away |
| 29% | ELOPE | 5 | Run away with the intention to marry |
| 29% | FRASIER | 7 | Titular sitcom character who says, about an enemy, "Charm is the vicious grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine" |
| 29% | POACHERS | 8 | Ones running away with the game? |
| 28% | ELOPER | 6 | One who runs away to get married |
| 28% | DISH | 4 | "... and the ___ ran away with the spoon" |
| 28% | DISH | 4 | ". . . and the ___ ran away with the spoon" |
| 27% | NANETTE | 7 | Broadway title character who runs off to Atlantic City |
| 27% | APU | 3 | "The Simpsons" character who runs the Kwik-E-Mart |
| 27% | ELOPE | 5 | Run away and marry with a lover |
| 27% | BARREL | 6 | Run with abandon |
| 27% | WARREN | 6 | With 35-Across, actor who played Clyde, one of the title characters on the run in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" |
| 27% | SPOON | 5 | What the dish ran away with, in "Hey Diddle Diddle" |
| 27% | DISH | 4 | It ran away with the spoon, in a nursery rhyme |
| 27% | DISH | 4 | What ran away with the spoon, in "Hey Diddle Diddle" |
| 27% | DISH | 4 | "And the ___ ran away with the spoon" (nursery rhyme line) |
| 27% | LEIA | 4 | Character who falls in love with Han Solo |
| 27% | ELOPE | 5 | Run away secretly with a lover to marry |
| 27% | DORA | 4 | Cartoon character who explores with Boots |
| 27% | DRFAUSTUS | 9 | Marlowe character who bargains with Mephistophilis |
| 26% | DISH | 4 | One running away with a spoon, in a children's rhyme |
| 26% | SPOON | 5 | Utensil that the dish ran away with, in a nursery rhyme |
| 26% | CALVIN | 6 | Character who appears with Hobbes in a comic strip |
| 26% | ALF | 3 | Sitcom character who lived with the Tanners |